Music With Meaning

I thought I'd do some YouTube-oriented posts this week - mostly sharing some awesome music with some amazing videos.

First and foremost: Hunted By A Freak, by Mogwai. One of their most beautiful songs with an amazingly haunting video:



The song itself is one of Mogwai's wonders. They manage to take some simple scraps of music and transform it into a haunting melody; it's this skill, the skill of composition, that I sorely need and which Mogwai have in abundance.

The video is another hugely beautiful facet of the song; it gives the song a whole new context - what was originally 'just' another minor-keyed sad song done in Mogwai's style, the video tells a true story about how horrible people can be. I'm sure that out there, somewhere, a person actually does that to animals. I can't help but watch the video with a sense of dread, knowing what's going to happen. It's a horrific insight into something we all wish didn't happen but which we all know does.

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Okay, so that's the first one. I'll try and keep the videos coming in at a regular pace, cause it pads my post count. Yay!

Also, James has written a rather good post about things he hates, Room 101 style. I'll make my own in the next few days, but thank James for the meme.

Finally, Jo has a really good blog. Who rants. Rants and rants and rants in the most hilarious way. Check her out!

Now I need to go and try to learn Windowpane by Opeth. I hope my fingers don't mutiny on me; I've only a week to learn it.


Sraen Out, with a gee-tar on mah back.